Chernobyl Diaries

The first big scare is the best in the show, a genuine WTF moment you won't see anywhere else. After that, Chernobyl Diaries' biggest, and almost only, asset is its setting - a big chunk of abandoned city with some apartment blocks and a couple of unusual public buildings to run around in.

The runners are a six-pack of tourists, three of each sex, who've joined local tour guide Yuri for a jaunt through Pripyat, once home to workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, hastily abandoned when the reactor blew. Before long, hungry things emerge from the dark.

Kinetic camera work keeps the action flowing, but the confrontations are weakly staged. And while the cast throw themselves into it, their no-dimensional characters give them little to do.

The mini-doc on the real Chernobyl disaster provides the bare minimum of information, but the commercial for Yuri's Extreme Tours is funny.